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Lädt ... The Platinum Age of Television: From I Love Lucy to The Walking Dead, How TV Became Terrificvon David Bianculli
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. This is detail history of television from its inception through 2017. Thorough as you can get. It is loaded with interviews with the major innovators like Ken Burns, Stephen Bocho, Vince Gilligan, David E. Kelley, Carl Reiner and the list goes on and on. Fun trivia facts about ratings and firsts for controversial subjects pepper this researched to death book. The analysis and impact from “All in the Family” to “Breaking Bad” is astounding. ( ) David Bianculli’s latest book, The Platinum Age of Television, provides a comprehensive history of how TV has evolved from its previous “golden age” to what he considers is now its “platinum age.” He tells this evolutionary story by choosing specific genres and then describing how a few shows contributed to the positive progress in this genre while telling about other key shows of the period. What makes the book special are the in-depth interviews with many of the people who created the best TV shows, starting with people like Mel Brooks and Carol Burnett. The interviews are remarkably personal with stories about how TV influenced them as kids. As a result, there seem to be lots of stories about sugar consumption on Saturday mornings. The interviews also reveal the remarkable cross-fertilization between shows. Another special aspect of the book is the discussion of the final episodes of many of our favorite series. Because he is not writing immediately after the series ended, Bianculli is free to explain the wider impacts of how the creators chose to end their series as well as the thinking that went into the final episodes themselves. In one of his previous books, Teleliteracy, Bianculli argues that knowing TV shows is essential to be considered culturally literate in today’s world. He argues that more people can name the four bothers from Bonanza than can name the four Brothers Karamazov. For those people, like myself, who have not seen a lot of TV in the past few years, the book is a way to improve their cultural literacy. Finally, people that are familiar with him from NPR’s Fresh Air or from his TV columns, will be happy to know that David Bianculli’s love of bad puns is not been tamed. This makes for an entertaining read interrupted occasionally with some head-slapping after a few really bad puns. Zeige 3 von 3 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
"Television shows have now eclipsed films as the premier form of visual narrative art of our time. This new book by one of our finest critics explains--historically, in depth, and with interviews with the celebrated creators themselves--how the art of must-see/binge-watch television evolved. Darwin had his theory of evolution, and David Bianculli has his. Bianculli's theory has to do with the concept of quality television: what it is and, crucially, how it got that way. In tracing the evolutionary history of our progress toward a Platinum Age of Television--our age, the era of The Sopranos and Breaking Bad and Mad Men and The Wire and Homeland and Girls--he focuses on the development of the classic TV genres, among them the sitcom, the crime show, the miniseries, the soap opera, the western, the animated series and the late night talk show. In each genre, he selects five key examples of the form, tracing its continuities and its dramatic departures and drawing on exclusive and in-depth interviews with many of the most famed auteurs in television history. Television has triumphantly come of age artistically; David Bianculli's book is the first to date to examine, in depth and in detail and with a keen critical and historical sense, how this inspiring development came about"-- Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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